Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, that's how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps that's my only way to become specific.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.